Sentences with phrase «other healthcare worker results»

Medical Malpractice occurs when the action of a physician or other healthcare worker results in harm to a patient.

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The remaining two people, who had no known exposure or symptoms, had positive results, but follow - up testing using different methods was negative, making Ebola virus infection very unlikely.The research team, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and funded by the Wellcome Trust, enrolled 300 UK and Ireland healthcare and other frontline workers ¹ for the study and sent them oral fluid collection devices.

PTSD symptoms and the full range of criteria comprising a PTSD diagnosis have been observed in rescue and ambulance personnel.12 13 Healthcare workers typically are exposed to two types of trauma in the hospital setting: direct (personal involvement in traumatic events through confrontations resulting in their own traumatic experiences, e.g., workplace violence) and indirect (non-personal involvement in traumatic events through others» confrontations resulting in other people's traumatic experiences, e.g., witnessing other people's direct experiences of workplace violence, caring for dying patients «and threats of severe injury or exposure to trauma).4 14 — 16 In the present study, a traumatic event refers to a healthcare worker's exposure to physical violence in the workplace.

As shown in the results of the Pearson's correlations and the hierarchical regression analysis, social support had a significant negative association with PTSD symptoms, and this finding is consistent with other researches.9 36 51 52 The level of PTSD symptoms was significantly and negatively correlated with the healthcare workers» scores for objective support and utilisation of support.